By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — It's no secret the young United States men's hockey team is fast and skilled. Turns out the kids can hit, too. Answering all the questions raised about their youth and inexperience, the U.S. went toe to toe with Canada in a bruising ...
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — The running joke was American snowboardcross racer Nick Baumgartner always referring to them as a pair of 40-somethings. "I'm 36," Lindsey Jacobellis playfully corrected time after time in interview after interview. For these ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — This road started in 2014, when Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor started driving four-man bobsleds against men with hopes of getting a second medal event for women added to the Olympic program. In 2018, they got their ...
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will find out Monday if she can compete at the Olympics in the women's competition, which starts a day later. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saturday the expedited hearing on Valieva's ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Marius Lindvik of Norway won Olympic gold in ski jumping on the large hill Saturday, holding off Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan. Lindvik jumped 140 meters (459 feet) on his final jump and earned 296.1 points overall to become the ...
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Beijing Games: ___ CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING WOMEN'S 4x5KM RELAY The Russian cross-country skiing team started strong and finished strong Saturday in the women's four-person relay, winning another Olympic gold ...
